An original Night Train. You see one of these machines around from time to time. It appears that this machine was customized to some extent; lot’s of chromed goodies. The transmission housing even looks as though it has been polished or otherwise finished.
Nice to see an original Bendix Carburetor, and it looks like you have some experience servicing the early dry clutch; the large washer holding the pressure plate together is something that most folks didn’t think of.
A couple of other interesting, but somewhat useless pieces of trivia:
The outer primary cover was common to the FL’s; it sported a footboard mount up front that wasn’t used.
The inner primary housing was unique to this kickstart only machine. The inner primary housing was not machined to accept a starter solenoid.
After ’73 the kickstart machines had a plate covering the hole for the solenoid. Is that a starter solenoid just to the right of the front brake back plate assembly? I’ll bet that chrome cover just to the right of the engine fits a large electric start battery. It’s funny now, but in that era electric start was an indication of a small sack; there were a lot of kick start machines sold back then; I bought a new ’74 FX. In the later ‘70’s, there were a pile of electric start kits sold and installed; my FX became an FXE.
The rear brake linkage was unique to the ’71 FX, with the master cylinder mounted up front, FL style. This linkage arrangement didn’t produce enough leverage to slow the machine with any useful degree of enthusiasm.
I believe that the ’71 ignition switch still had a “parking lamp” position.
Nice machine; good luck with rescue!
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